Saturday was very lazy. I had a couple of "maybe I should do something " moments but mostly I just laid around and napped. I knew Phil was coming in, in the evening so I felt like I was just waiting around. I was watching a bit of Olympic rowing when he rang the door bell. We had a good evening, grabbed some food, caught up on the last couple days, hung with the fam.
Sunday we got up somewhat early and got breakfast at this local place called McCoys. I had some delicious raspberry cream stuffed french toast. And to work that off we went on a nice leisurely bike ride mid morning. I'm not great with distance but I think we did about five miles. After we returned and showered we hopped in the car an headed up to Estes Park. It was a nice little drive. Phil had gotten a room at the historic Stanley Hotel, the inspiration behind "The Shining" so we wandered around there for a bit before making our way to the whiskey bar. We ate dinner there and it was amazing!! We had a cream cheese rainbow trout dip as an appetizer which I was a little skeptical at first, but it was quite tasty. Being at the hotel that inspired "The Shining" I of course had to try their signature redrum punch. Three types of rum with pineapple juice and grenadine? Yes please! Oh and dinner. Holly would have been foodgasming for sure. Phil had a steak (man food ya know?) and I had rack of lamb with veggie melody. The lamb was REALLY good but the highlight of the meal was the side dish. This vegetable melody the spoke of, again I was skeptical.. It was some kind of white beans, zucchini , squash, probably a bit of mire poux and some stuffing-esque spices. I know it doesn't sound all that amazing, but it totally was.
After dinner we wandered a bit more and found a butterfly hatchery, with butterflies hatching! Apparently they hatch throughout the summer and every Thursday the staff at the hotel gather and release them to make room for the new hatchlings. It was really neat! ( see photos at the bottom)
Monday we ate at the Egg and I, and while I know these exists in AZ I had never been to one. They had super breakfasts. Since we were all fueled up we took off further into the Rockies to Grand Lake. A tiny little tourist town nestled in the mountains so deep you can only access it during summer. It's a natural lake and it's gorgeous!! We moseyed about for a bit and then headed back to ole FC.
Driving back over the tundra, which is the point above the timber line where trees can't even grow, there was fresh snow! In July! It was pretty cool to witness. Also up in the tundra was a herd of deer. One of the females wandered right up to the road as if to greet cars as they came over the pass. It reminded me very much of the beaver welcoming people to Canada. So I got a good laugh out of that. I took pictures of that as well but they're on my actually camera and I don't have my computer set up so I'll add those in to a post at a later date.
The rest of the day past uneventfully. We came home, made turkey taco and watched the Olympics. It was a fantastic weekend! Although miss my bubbykins Eko, I'm still very excited to be in Colorado and looking forward to mine and Carolyn's new apartment in a few weeks.
